File Hosting. Cloud computing. Juniper Networks: The Cloud. Backupify Raises $4.5 Million To Back Up Data In The Cloud. Backupify, a cloud computing service that backs up data on other cloud computing services, has raised $4.5 Million in Series A funding co-led by Avalon Ventures and General Catalyst, with Lowercase Capital and First Round Capital participating in the round. Founded in 2008 by Rob May, Backupify backs up all your data on services like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, and YouTube. The service keeps all the raw data for you and creates a downloadable PDF with, for instance, all your Tweets, direct messages, followers, people you follow, and profile info. Backupify offers free and premium versions of the service.
The company says that its offerings is gaining traction amongst enterprise customers who are looking to preserve data from social media outlets, and help backup data in the cloud. Earlier this year, Backupify, which was launched last June, raised $900,000 in seed funding led by First Round Capital. Secure Online Backup and Archiving for Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and Wordpress | Backupify. The Cloud Is Nice For Music, But Vital For Video. A new report by CNET’s Greg Sandoval yesterday gave an update on Apple and Google’s race to deploy music to the cloud.
Basically, according to his sources, Apple isn’t close to doing anything massive in the space. Google, meanwhile, is likely closer but may have a hard time getting traction early on due to iTunes’ dominance. But the most interesting bit is buried a few paragraphs in. According to Sandoval, the core Lala team (the music-streaming service Apple bought last December) inside Apple hasn’t been working on the cloud music solution. Hell, they haven’t even been working on music at all. Instead, they’re apparently working on “an undisclosed video feature.” On the face of it, that doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. I’ve been arguing this for some time now: the iTunes ecosystem is on the verge of a major storage problem.
Each feature length movie you download on iTunes is already over a gigabyte in size. But the problem is just as daunting for traditional computers too. Amazon introduces Silk, its new “split” mobile web browser. Half on device and half in Amazon cloud.